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title: "Artificial general intelligence"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T11:01:56.982213+00:00"
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=== Mass unemployment ===
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Researchers from OpenAI estimated in 2023 that "80% of the U.S. workforce could have at least 10% of their work tasks affected by the introduction of LLMs, while around 19% of workers may see at least 50% of their tasks impacted". They consider office workers to be the most exposed, for example mathematicians, accountants or web designers. AGI could have a better autonomy, ability to make decisions, to interface with other computer tools, but also to control robotized bodies. A common belief among top AI company insiders is that most workers will face technological unemployment from AGI, starting with white-collar jobs and, as robotics improves, extending to blue-collar jobs. Critics of the idea argue that AGI will complement rather than replace humans, and that automation displaces work in the short term but not in the long term.
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According to Stephen Hawking, the outcome of automation on the quality of life will depend on how the wealth will be redistributed:
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Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequalityElon Musk argued in 2021 that the automation of society will require governments to adopt a universal basic income (UBI). Hinton similarly advised the UK government in 2025 to adopt a UBI as a response to AI-induced unemployment. In 2023, Hinton said "I'm a socialist [...] I think that private ownership of the media, and of the 'means of computation', is not good."
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== See also ==
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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=== Sources ===
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== Further reading ==
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== External links ==
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The AGI portal maintained by Pei Wang |